Analysis: Biden says “no,” Americans shouldn’t worry about nuclear war with Russia
One was thatThe other can be found inPerroots, who was overseeing Able Archer in his capacity as assistant chief of staff for intelligence for the U.S. Air Force in Europe, saw that Soviet forces had raised their alert levels.. Had he elevated the alert level of Western military assets — which would not have been an unreasonable thing to do — the Soviets might well have concluded that the exercise was indeed cover for an attack.
Asked how the United States was reducing the risk of nuclear war, Psaki said Washington was “not escalating our own rhetoric” and “we have not changed our own posture.” That’s to say: America has not matched Putin’s alert with its own in a potentially escalatory tit-for-tat. At the Pentagon, a senior Defense Department official briefed reporters that Putin’s “unnecessary and very escalatory” order had not led to any “noticeable muscle movements,” meaning any real-world shifts in Russia’s nuclear posture.
In the event of actual fears of atomic action, officials could reach out via the famous “hotline” linking Washington and Moscow. But
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